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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Birthday Banner

Decorating for a party or any festive occasion can be so much fun. That personal touch of a hand crafted item can make all the difference too.

Michelle Philippi

Birthday Banners

Hello Imaginisce fans!

I’m on a banner kick lately. I made a couple for my daughter’s birthday, a couple for a tea party we hosted, a spring banner, then Easter before that.... Quite a few of them. My son’s birthday is at the end of this month and I enlisted the help of my daughter to make a couple of banners for him.

She punched a bunch of little circles, stars, and birthday cakes from out of patterned paper from Imaginisce’s My Baby and Little Princess collections.

I know that Little Princess isn’t really for a boy, but this boy has a crazy sweet tooth and I really wanted to use the cupcake sheet from that collection. But then those pieces wouldn’t coordinate perfectly with the My Baby pieces. Soooo.... I decided to add in some foil cupcake papers (some small and some normal size) to tie both banners together.

And then I did a lot of sewing. Truth be told – I am no seamstress. I only bought my sewing machine for sewing on cards – LOL So I feel pretty good about making banners with it too. Super easy to just feed the pieces through over and over again. Another cool part about stitching a banner together like this is not having to punch holes and string the banner pieces. Saves time; and we’re all about that

And the end result? Super fun banners to hang up for the birthday boy.

7 comments:

FUN banner Michelle :)LOVE the silver against the pretty punched shapes!!!THANK YOU for sharing how easy it is to sew all the pieces together ... I had one bad experience using my sewing machine for papercrafting and confess that I have avoided it ever since, might just try making a birthday banner now!!!